Recently, Andy Wilman quietly handed in his resignation to the BBC as executive producer of Top Gear. Top Gear is a popular BBC programme in the United Kingdom and the United States as well as the Top Gear spin-offs for Australia and the US shown there, exclusively.

Mr. Wilman has been credited with Top Gear’s success since the re-vamping of the the show from 2000 with Jeremy Clarkson and then BBC Two controller Jane Root.

Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman are friends and were seen meeting with James May & Richard Hammond in London at the time the decision was received at the BBC that Mr. Wilman was leaving the programme and the corporation.

Earlier in the month, Wilman had denied reports he was leaving the company/show, said “[He] does not have any irons in the fire”. He also described in the Top Gear Magazine, “As I sit here now in April 2015, in a completely empty office, I think that faraway lunch absolutely encapsulates the tragedy of what the BBC has lost in getting rid of Jeremy. According to BBC Two controller, Shillinghaw said there was no ban on [Jeremy] Clarkson returning as well as the BBC not ruling out  a return for Clarkson.

“It hasn’t just lost a man who can hold viewers’ attention in front of a camera, it’s lost a journalist who could use the discipline of print training to focus on what mattered and what didn’t; it’s lost an editorial genius who could look at an existing structure and then smash it up and reshape it in a blaze of light-bulb moments.” Mr.Wilman feels confident that any employees of the show have no need to worry as the BBC will do what needs to be done to carry on with the show.

Andy Wilman said, “Our stint as guardians of Top Gear was a good one, but we were only part of the show’s history, not the whole of it. Those two words are bigger than us.”  It is quite possible that the pair, Clarkson and Wilman, along with Richard Hammond may take the show to Netflix, Amazon or a rival British channel.